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science.ocaho.com

20 points by rahimnathwani 8 hours ago

There’s a really good kids’ science magazine called Oyla, but it’s aimed at kids 12+

I subscribed a couple of years ago thinking that it would be fine for my son (then 8yo, but an advanced reader) but, even now (10yo), the articles are too dense for him and don’t hold his interest.

Last year, the same company launched ‘Oyla Junior’ aimed at younger kids ~8yo. But I read a couple of the articles and I think they’re too oversimplified.

I wanted something in between, but didn’t find anything suitable online.

So I used AI to create something, and did a bunch of iterations to tune the sentence length, the flow of the articles, how much info is introduced in each paragraph etc.

I still want to make it better, but it’s already good enough for my son to read.

rahimnathwani - 21 minutes ago

If you like this you might like this other thing I made with AI: https://philosophy.ocaho.com/

(Of course, if you hate this, you will hate that even more.)

retrochameleon - 38 minutes ago

I skimmed through a few articles. These look really high quality and engaging. Makes me feel like a kid reading some of the cool STEM Encyclopedia-type books like from DK.

maiti_ma - 3 hours ago

Nice, you cover very interesting and fun questions! I'd love to know the answers to all of these once my kid (baby now) is old enough to ask about it. I scanned a few articles and they seem bit too long for me, I'd expect it to be more concise (I hope kids have a better attention span than me!). Btw, is the glove with six fingers for the article on six sides of an ice flake an intentional put?

marcimastro981 - 40 minutes ago

Love the cards images, just a curiosity how do you create that images?

docheinestages - 4 hours ago

I'm interested to learn from the prompts you used to generate the images and texts. Perhaps a skill you could share to generate such content?

MarkusQ - 4 hours ago

I was prepared to be critical, expecting a slop-recital of facts with no explanation of how we came to know them (the sort of brain-dead thinking that would conflate knowing player stats with playing sports) but was pleasantly surprised. The couple I looked at had engaging explanations of the process of discovery (including, in the sunflower case, the missteps). Nice!

msylla - 3 hours ago

I was expecting something more visual and simple to explain to kids

lern_too_spel - an hour ago

How does your friend hide their dot in the GPS experiment? What precision should the distance measurements be to find this dot? Ask your LLM to review the experiments for workability.

neduma - 4 hours ago

Can we turn this into a printable book?

totallygeeky - 3 hours ago

Disappointing to see AI used in what otherwise seems to be a well-intentioned project. As an adult I think some of these graphics are confusing at best and I question your familiarity with the subject matters to actually check whether or not these are explained both in a consistent and correct manner.